The Veteran is granted an effective date of June 16, 2017, but no earlier, until September 2020 for dependency benefits for his former spouse, D.S.
The deciding factor: The Veteran provided sufficient information regarding his marriage to D.S. and their marriage history within one year of the September 2017 notification letter that requested the additional missing information.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2023
- Citation
- 23000011
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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